Structured finance: Volumes rocket, up for fourth year in a row

It has been a glorious first half of the year for global structured finance, with volumes outperforming the plain vanilla universe for the fourth year in a row. The total rocketed up by more than a quarter, to $1.2 trillion from $944.6 billion during the first half of 2004.

It was a similar, but even more impressive, story for global ABS volumes, which reached $589 billion during the first half of 2005, a 37% increase on the first six months of 2004.